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CREATED BY JACOB VON HELAND & HENRIK ERNSTSON CINEMATOGRAPHY JOHAN VON REYBEKIEL SOUND RECORDING JONATHAN CHILES SOUND MIXING JAKOB
OLDENBURG MUSIC LOUISE BECKER ADDITIONAL MUSIC DAVE REYNOLDS & POPS MOHAMMED PRODUCTION COORDINATION JESSICA RATTLE & NCEBA MANGESI GRAPHIC DESIGN ERIK HARTIN EDITING
JACOB VON HELAND ASSISTANT EDITING HENRIK ERNSTSON RESEARCH HENRIK ERNSTSON & JACOB VON HELAND PRODUCED BY TELLTALES FILM IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SITUATED ECOLOGIES PLATFORM
AND THE KTH ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES LABORATORY, KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND AFRICAN CENTRE FOR CITIES, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN FUNDED BY THE SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL
FORMAS WITH SUPPORT FROM THE MARCUS AND AMALIA WALLENBERG FOUNDATION.
DOCUMENTARY FILM :: RUNTIME 84 MINUTES :: WORLD PREMIERE 2018 AT CPH:DOX.
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ONE TABLE TWO ELEPHANTS (84 min) A film about race, nature and ways of knowing in the postcolonial city.
SYNOPSIS – This is a film about bushmen bboys, a flower kingdom and the ghost of a princess. Entering the city through its plants and wetlands, the many-layered, painful and liberating history of the city emerges as we see how biologists, hip hoppers, and wetland activists each searches for ways to craft symbols of unity and cohesion. But this is a fraught and difficult task. Perhaps not even desirable. Plants, aliens, memories and ghosts keep troubling efforts of weaving stories about this place called Cape Town.
THE PROCESS – Situated and grounded in lived experiences across a range of groups, this film follows different ways of knowing and tries to be a vehicle toward difficult yet urgently needed conversations about how race, nature and the city are intertwined in our postcolonial world where history is ever present in subtle and direct ways. This cinematic ethnography brings texture to understand a city like Cape Town, while providing possibilities to translate what is happening “there” to conversations about any city and its surroundings.
CONTEXT – One Table Two Elephants is created in a context of long-term urban research in Cape Town with an environmental and social science orientation. It is part of the projects Ways of Knowing Urban Ecologies and Towards a Visual Environmental Humanities at the KTH Environmental Humanities Lab that produce explorative and artistic forms academic knowledge production beyond writing and text.
CREATED BY – Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson. Cinematography: Johan von Reybekiel. Sound: Jonathan Chiles. Editing: Jacob von Heland. Assistant Editing: Henrik Ernstson. Sound Design and Mix: Jakob Oldenburg. Production Coordination: Jessica Rattle and Nceba Mangesi. Color grade: Johan von Reybekiel. Original Music: Louise Becker. Graphic Design: Erik Hartin.
PRODUCED BY – Telltales Film, in collaboration with The Situated Ecologies Platform, African Centre for Cities University of Cape Town and the
CREATED BY JACOB VON HELAND & HENRIK ERNSTSON CINEMATOGRAPHY JOHAN VON REYBEKIEL SOUND RECORDING JONATHAN CHILES SOUND MIXING JAKOB
OLDENBURG MUSIC LOUISE BECKER ADDITIONAL MUSIC DAVE REYNOLDS & POPS MOHAMMED PRODUCTION COORDINATION JESSICA RATTLE & NCEBA MANGESI GRAPHIC DESIGN ERIK HARTIN EDITING
JACOB VON HELAND ASSISTANT EDITING HENRIK ERNSTSON RESEARCH HENRIK ERNSTSON & JACOB VON HELAND PRODUCED BY TELLTALES FILM IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SITUATED ECOLOGIES PLATFORM
AND THE KTH ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES LABORATORY, KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND AFRICAN CENTRE FOR CITIES, UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN FUNDED BY THE SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL
FORMAS WITH SUPPORT FROM THE MARCUS AND AMALIA WALLENBERG FOUNDATION.
DOCUMENTARY FILM :: RUNTIME 84 MINUTES :: WORLD PREMIERE 2018 AT CPH:DOX.
ONE TABLE TWO ELEPHANTS
KTH Environmental Humanities Lab. Support by the Swedish Research Council Formas and Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond.
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/256624115
PREMIERES AND SELECTIONS • WORLD PREMIERE 2018. Feature documentary film One Table Two Elephants (84 min) by
Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson has been nominated for the Nordic Dox Award with world premiere at the CPH:DOX 2018 film festival the 20th of March.
The film has also been selected in the following film festivals
• Cape Town International Film Market and Festival (CTIFF), Cape Town, South Africa, 12 October 2018, AFRICAN PREMIERE
• InScience Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 8 November 2018
• Crosscuts Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 24 November 2018
• Tirana International Film Festival (TIFF), Tirana, Albania, 6 November 2018
BIOGRAPHY AND FILMOGRAPHY Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson have been collaborating on urban and environmental research and filmmaking since 2014 through the Situated Ecologies Platform and the KTH Environmental Humanities Lab. For more info about our work see our website Available Light: http://www.availablelight.situatedecologies.net
Filmmakers’ bio (shorter version): Jacob von Heland and Henrik Ernstson are researchers and filmmakers who are born in Sweden but have worked scholarly and professionally in southern and eastern Africa for more than 15 years. They share a mutual research focus on urban political ecology, knowledge politics, visual science-and-technology studies (STS) and the use of artistic practices, with a particular interest in environmental politics of cities of the global South. Heland is a filmmaker and researcher at the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm where he leads the arts-science project “Towards a Visual Environmental Humanities in the Digital Era: Filming and Writing as a Bimodal Research Practice”. Ernstson, with a past as theatre producer and with long-term collaborations in Cape Town and South Africa, has held various research positions, including at the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, Stanford University, and currently at The University of Manchester, KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory, and recently appointed UCT Honorary Research Associate. Since 2014, Ernstson and Heland has collaborated with co-workers to expand “The Situated Ecologies Platform,” which develops art-science practices to richly and eloquently speak into environmental and political questions. Filmmakers’ bio (longer version):
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Jacob von Heland Biography - Born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1980. von Heland is a film director and researcher. Currently he is a research fellow at the Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, Royal Institute of Technology KTH where he leads the art and science project Towards a Visual Environmental Humanities in the Digital Era: Filming and Writing as a Bimodal Research Practice funded by the Swedish Research Council Formas. von Heland has a PhD in Human Ecology from Stockholm University and runs Telltales Film.
Filmography - 2018 One Table Two Elephants, co-created with Henrik Ernstson, 84 min; 2016 Killing Aliens Everyday, co-created with Henrik Ernstson, 15 min; 2015 Trance Dance, co-created with Henrik Ernstson 15 min; 2014 Beloved Flood, 30 min; 2012 When the Flood Came, 7 min, 2010 Svinfesten, co-created with Karin Sundberg 30 min; 2005 Squat the World, co-created with Adam Forslund 30 min.
Henrik Ernstson Biography - Born in Grimsås, Southern Sweden in 1972. Ernstson is a lecturer in Political Ecology and Human Geography focusing on the contested nature of urban ecologies. With a past as theatre producer he has held research positions at Stanford University, Stockholm University, University of Cape Town, KTH, and now at The University of Manchester. Ernstson is co-directing The Situated Ecologies Platform and Situated Urban Political Ecologies Collective.
Filmography- 2018 One Table Two Elephants, co-created with Jacob von Heland, 84 min; 2016 Killing Aliens Everyday, co-created with Jacob von Heland, 15 min; and produced several theatre plays, including: 2016 STOMPIE, Cape Town; 2006 Är du där? (Are you There?), producer/translator of Javier Daulte; 2005 Aptitlösheten (Loss of appetite), producer and translator of Rafael Spregelburd; 2001 Getterna i trädet (The Goats in the Tree), producer with director Kent Ekberg.
CONTACT Jacob von Heland Telltales Film & KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, tel +46707272487, [email protected]
Henrik Ernstson Department of Geography, The University of Manchester & KTH Environmental Humanities Lab & African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, cell +44 7596 133469 work +44 161 275 3649 SA +27 82 9666 554, [email protected]
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